Boards of Canada to Reissue Debut

theblogstar1Warp Records has set a release date of November 25th for its freshly re-release of Boards of Canada's mind-bending 1995 debut Twoism, which was originally available on the Boards' own label, Music70, in a ridiculously limited run of only 100 copies. Described by Warp as a "subtle precursor" to 1998's full-length Music Has the Right to Children, the nine-cut mini-album tentatively explores sounds and themes that would later be forever identified with the Scottish duo-- "Bittersweet evocations of childhood, haunted pastoral spaces, contriving a detached perspective, or [drifting] through their grainyorganic electronics."

The Boards' gritty, melancholy brand of electronica first caught the attention of record labels when a copy of Twoism somehow found


its way to the offices Manchester-based Skam. Within a day Autechre's Sean Booth was on the duo's trail, and Boards of Canada inaugurated their visually unique live show on a 1996 tour with Autechre, Panasonic, and Cylob. An EP, Hi Scores, followed on Skam that year.

Though Twoism has been widely available on MP3 for net-savvy file-traders, original copies have passed hands for over $1,200 on eBay, according to Warp. Perhaps in deference to this fact, not only will Twoism be making its CD debut this November, but Warp will be repressing the vinyl.

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